Free John White: A Building Bridges exclusive with the recently convicted John White, attorney Frederick Brewington, Minister Kevin Mohammed, and the Rev. Al Sharpton directly from the mass support rally for John White at the Suffolk County Criminal Court Building(28:17) The right to protect one's home and family is as American as apple pie - or is it when it comes to African-Americas? The recent conviction for manslaughter in Suffolk County of John White, who awoke to find a mob of white...
Topics: civil rights, judicial misconduct, Rev, Al Sharpton, Suffolk County
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash *********************** From Ferguson to Staten Island Building Resistance to Police Terror with Michael McPhearson, Ex. Dir. of Veterans for Peace, Carl Dix, co-founder, with Dr. Cornel West of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, Shahid Buttar, Executive Director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Arguably the most significant uprising in many years in this country, in response to the...
Topics: Ferguson Missouri, Michael McPhearson, Veterans for Peace, Carl Dix, Shahid Buttar, Bill of Rights...
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., January 26, 2015, 7 - 8pm EST *****************************. Fired McDonald's Workers File Civil Rights Suit Claiming Racial Discrimination with Catherine Ruckelshaus, National Employment Law Project Several McDonaldâs workers filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the company alleging a âwidespread pattern of racial and sexual discrimination and harassmentâ at some stores. The suit, filed in the U.S....
Topics: Cuomo budget, green party Cuomo budget, Howie Hawkins Cuomo budget, Virginia McDonaldâs civil...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** The People's Summit: A Way Forward for Peoples Power with RoseAnn DeMoro, Executive Director, National Nurses United and Winnie Wong, Founder, People for Bernie & a Peopleâs Summit Organizer So you couldnât attend the Peoples Summit, well weâll provide a report back on the historic convening of organizations and individuals committed to social, racial and...
Topics: Peopleâs Summit, RoseAnn DeMoro, National Nurses United, Winnie Wong, People for Bernie,...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** NYC Taxi Drivers Caravan to Albany to Protect Full-Time Jobs with Bhairavi Desai, Ex. Dir. NY Taxi Workers Alliance A traffic jam of taxicabs circled the Capitol in Albany to put the brakes on legislation sponsored by ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft, which allow people to pick up passengers in their own cars. NYC would be required to accept drop-offs...
Topics: Bhairavi Desai, Taxi Workers Alliance, Uber, precarious jobs, taxi regulation New York State,...
Building Bridges, National Edition by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ***************** The Zero Dark Thirty Controversy: Torture, Art, and Politics with Alexander Abdo, attorney, National Security Project, ACLU Since the release of the award-winning Zero Dark Thirty, many critics have condemned the film, claiming it contains serious historical inaccuracies and accepts some of this countryâs worst post 9/11 abuses. Alexander Abdo discusses the relationship and responsibility that prominent works...
Topics: Alexander Abdo, attorney, National Security Project, ACLU, Robert Redford, Paul Auster, Zero Dark...
WBAIâs Radio Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 3 - 7 pm EST, over 99.5 FM ******************************** Building Bridges To Occupy Air Waves 3 â 7 PM, with May Day Special! May Day began in the U.S. in 1886 as a nationwide general strike, led by immigrant workers, fighting for the 8 hour work day. While celebrated across the globe, it has been largely ignored in the U.S., until recently, when immigrant workers revived it. Now, a new chapter in the...
Topics: Building Bridges May Day, May Day New York City, May Day 2013
----- Original Message ----- From: Ken Nash To: Ken Nash Sent: Friday, October 09, 2015 6:23 PM Subject: Building Bridges: Relaunching OUR Walmart Campaign Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** OUR Walmart Campaign, with New Partners Readies To Turn âBlack Fridayâ into a Red-Letter Day in its Fight for $15 and Full-Time Employment for Employees Walmart workers, fortified with a growing number of...
Topics: Our walmart, Walmart relaunch, Walmart workers, Walmart black Friday, Walmart and $15, Walmart union
Building Bridges, the National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ****************** Working for an Economy, By the People, for the People with Professor Stanley Aronowitz Stanley Aronowitz is the director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work at the CUNY Graduate Center, a distinguished professor of sociology and urban education, author of 23 books , and ran for governor of New York in 2002. He is one of the great public intellectuals of our times. Author of 23...
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Topics: Stanley Aronowitz, Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work at the CUNY Graduate...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition - 27:23 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** Workers Protest Puerto Ricoâs Governor âs Lay Off Of Tens Of Thousands with Benjamin Borges, Executive Director, Public Service Workers United of Puerto Rico (Servidores Públicos Unidos de Puerto Rico) Council 95, AFSCME One hundred thousand marched in San Juan to protest the recent firing of10,000 workers by prostatehood Governor Luis...
Topics: Puerto Rico Unions, AFSCME Council 95, Governor Fortuno, Benjamin Borges, Puerto Rico layoffs, Law...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition - 27 minutes Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** Will Obama Stop The Supreme Courtâs Gallop To The Right with Theodore Shaw, former Director-Counsel and President of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where he litigated civil rights cases at the US Supreme Court, and former trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division, US Department of Justice On the retirement of Justice John Paul...
Topics: Supreme Court, Theodore Shaw, John Paul Stevens, NAACP, Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Obama...
Building Bridges, the National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ***************** Prison Inmates Hunger Strike for Their Lives with . Delores Canales, member of California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement (Cfasc), Advisory Board of CURB (Californians United for a Responsible Budget) and LWSGI (Lives Worth Saving Gang Intervention), mother of a Pelican Bay SHU prisoner and . Carol Strickman, attorney, Legal Services for Prisoners With Children, member of the Prisoner Hunger...
Topics: California prison hunger strike, Delores Canales, California Families to Abolish Solitary...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report The National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ****************** New York Has the Financial Muscle to Leverage to Combat Inequality with Connie Razza, Research Dir., Center for Popular Democracy and Arthur Cheliotes, Pres. Local 1180, Communication Workers of America New York is among the most unequal cities in the US. This inequality has become the most pressing issue in New York City and New York State. The good news is New Yorkers...
Topics: Connie Razza, Center for Popular Democracy, Arthur Cheliotes, Local 1180, Communication Workers of...
Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report National Edition 27:05 Produced by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ****************** What Is To Be Done? A Conversation about Organizing and Strategies to Win With Stanley Aronowitz, studies labor, and social movements, and is director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Heâs authored or edited twenty-five books including: "Left Turn: Forging a New...
Topics: Stanley Aronowitz, Manny Ness, labor movement, unions, working class, May Day, unions New York...
Building Bridges National Edition with Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg United Automobile Workers Sets Its Sight on Mississippi Nissan Plant to Break the Back of Nonunion South featuring Sheila Wilson, autoworker, Canton Mississippi Nissan Plant Raphael Martinez, autoworker, Canton Mississippi Nissan Plant It is just more than a month since the UAW suffered a bruising defeat at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, with workers voting not to join a union in an election widely seen as a test of whether...
Topics: Mississippi Nissan organizing, United Automobile workers and Nissan, southern union organizing and...
Building Bridges, the National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ****************** A Building Bridges Expose - How the U.S. Government Profits from Child Labor, Forced Overtime, Wage Violations, and Other Illegal, Dangerous and Inhumane Conditions with Ian Urbina, N.Y. Times investigatory reporter and Molly McGrath, International Campaigns Coordinator, AFL-CIO Just as major brands and retailers buy from thousands of global suppliers who fail to comply with laws, protect workers and...
Topics: Ian Urbina, Molly McGrath, International Campaigns AFL-CIO, U.S. purchases sweatshops abroad, U.S....
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition - 28 minutes Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg Fixing A Broken Immigration System: Latino Immigrants Rights Leadership Respond To Obama with Oscar Chacon, Executive Director, National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC) and Benita Jain, Co-Director, Immigrant Defense Project, New York Univ. Following the major speech by President Obama on immigration, and in the wake of rising xenophobic and...
Topics: undocumented workers, immigration reform and obama, mott's strike, Oscar Chacon, Executive...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report The National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ****************** Part 2 of The Homecoming Tribute for The Action Figure, The Instrumentalist of Words, The Writer, The Master Teacher Amiri Baraka Featuring the Euology of his Son Ras Baraka , the Next Mayor of Newark, NJ The Homecoming tribute of writer and revolutionary icon Amiri Baraka shut down a section of one of downtown Newarkâs main streets, dignitary style. African drummers...
Topics: Amiri Baraka, Saul Williams, Kevin Maynard, Sonia Sanchez, Larry Hamm, Danny Glover, Newark...
Building Bridges with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Monday, December, 24, 2012, 7 - 8 pm EST over WBAI Radio, 99.5 FM, ******************************** âAnd The Walls Came Tumbling Downâ A Building Bridges Special with Mumia Abu-Jamal, Angela Davis, Cornel West, Pam Africa, Jazz Hayden, Juan E. Mendez, Soffiyah Elijah, and Marc Lamont Hill Recalling in now its 41st year the Attica prison massacre of courageous prisoners who rose up against dehumanizing conditions, thousands came together to...
Topics: Mumia Abu-Jamal, Angela Davis, Cornel West, Pam Africa, Jazz Hayden, Juan E. Mendez, Soffiyah...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Trumpâs Continuing War on Immigrants With Justin Flores , Vice President, Farm Labor Organizing Committee Andrea Cristina Mercado, Campaign Director at the National Domestic Worker Alliance Carlos Jimenez, Executive Director Metro Washington Council, AFL-CIO While a Federal Appeals Panel unanimously rejected President Trumpâs bid to reinstate his ban on travel...
Topics: Trump immigration executive order, Justin Flores farm labor immigration trump, Andrea Cristina...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Say His Name: TIMOTHY CAUGHMAN! Confronting Terror Attacks Against African-Americans, Resisting White Supremacy, Combating White Nationalism! Timothy Caughman, 66, was a former social worker, who, in his retirement years, had taken to recycling to keep busy and help pay his rent. Caughman was African-American, which made him a target for his professed killer,...
Topics: Timothy Caughman white terrorism, Timothy Caughman murder n.y.c., Black lives matter Timothy...
Building Bridges, the National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ******************** Hey Governor Cuomo, We Need a Real Minimum Wage Now! with Assembly member Linda Rosenthal Senator Jose Peralta The Coalition for a Real Minimum-Wage Increase The new minimum wage bill will not be indexed to inflation, instead Governor Cuomoâs wage bill raises the minimum wage to only $9 an hour in three years - too little, too late. We need a real minimum wage increase that lifts people out of...
Topics: Nys minimum wage, Cuomo minimum wage, Assembly member Linda Rosenthal, Senator Jose Peralta, The...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Trump Las Vegas Hotel Workers Say Heâs Anti-Worker. Heâd Rather Say âYOUR FIREDâ than Allow Workers to Unionize! with Bethany Khan, Director of Communications, Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and Luis Carlos, Banquet food server, Trump Hotel Las Vergas After a resounding âYESâ vote to unionize with the Culinary Workers Union, Local 226, Trumpâs Hotel Las...
Topics: Trump hotel union, Culinary workers union, Ronald Reagan 1948, Trump union, Trump NLRB, Hotel...
WBAIâs Radio Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Monday, April 2, 2012, 7- 8 pm EST, over 99.5 FM P roduced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash ******************************** NYPD Surveillance of Muslims Extended To Activist Organizations With Speakers from: Desis Rising Up & Moving (DRUM); Al Awda NY; Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood; Peoplesâ Justice for Community Control & Police Accountability; CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities; Malcolm X Grassroots...
Topics: Strand bookstore union, NYPD surveillance, Taxi Workers Alliance, Desis Rising Up & Moving,...
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., December 22, 2014, 7 - 8pm EST *****************************. The Solitary Confinement of Youth in New York - A Civil Rights Violation Featuring Professor Alex Vitale, Member, NY Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Alexandra Korry, Chairperson, NY Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights *****************************. A Xmas Gift to the Wall Street Casino Congress Lets Big...
Topics: solitary confinement new york, NY Advisory Committee to the U.S.Alexandra Korry, Commission on...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Standing Rock Sioux Victory over Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) with Jeffrey Haas, who has an extensive background in mass defense from his days as a lawyer for Black Panthers and co-founder of the Peopleâs Law Office, a Chicago lawyersâ collective that rose up to meet its historical momentâthe defense of hundreds of Vietnam War protesters in the aftermath of...
Topics: Standing Rock Sioux, Dakota Access Pipeline, Dakota Access Pipeline Victory, Jeffrey Haas NDAPL...
Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report National Edition 27:43 Produced by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ****************** Community Seeks Justice For Michael Lembhard, The Latest African-American Youth To Die By The Hands Of Newburgh Police With Lillie Howard, community activist whose grandson was killed by Newburgh police and Juanita King, cousin of Michael Lembhard, killed by Newburgh police Anger still rages in the latest police killing March 7, in the city of Newburgh, NY of...
Topics: Michael Lembhard, Newburgh police, Lillie Howard, Juanita King, Judy
Building Bridges, the National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ****************** What's Ahead for More than One-Million who Just Lost Unemployed Benefits , the Unraveling of the Safety Net and Planning for Job Creation, to Address Income Stagnation and Wealth Inequality with Richard Eskow, Senior Fellow, Campaign for Americaâs Future The unemployment insurance program provides laid-off workers with a fraction of their old salary for a fixed period of time while the search for a new...
Topics: Unemployment compensation benefits, unemployment, Richard Eskow, food stamps, SNAP, wealth...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ********************* The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workersâ Movement with Stanley Aronowitz with In the 1950s, Aronowitz was a factory metalworker. In the â50s and â60s, he directed organizing with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers. In 1963, he coordinated labor participation for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Ten...
Topics: Stanley aronowitz, Death and Life of American Labor, workers movement, labor, Unions, union...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition - 28 minutes Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** Building a Movement for Green Jobs to Re-industrialize the U.S. with Leo Gerard, President of the United Steelworkers We feature the voice of a labor leader who is building bridges between workers internationally and sees the ties that bind the labor and environmental movements in the U.S. Leo Gerard, President of the United Steelworkers with...
Topics: economic crisis, unemployment, Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers, The Green Collar Economy, China...
Building Bridges over WBAI radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., June 10, 2013, 7 - 8 pm EST streaming @ www.wbai.org smartphone streaming @ http://stream.wbai.org & to listen, or download archived shows, http://archive.wbai.org/show1.php?showid=bbridges ******************************** Carry it Forward: Celebrate the Children of Resistance with Robert Meeropol, son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage and executed in 1953, and founder...
Topics: Robert Meeropol, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Cablevision union, Walmart union
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Attica, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy! with Heather Ann Thompson, author of Blood In The Water Although much has been written about the take over and ensuing assault on the Attica prison by state police and national guard troops some four days later which resulted in the murder of forty three individuals, including ten...
Topics: Mass incarceration civil rights, Heather Ann Thompson, Blood In The Water, Attica Uprising
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Welcome to New York, Oscar! / ¡Bienvenido a Nueva York, Oscar! Puerto Rican independence activist Oscar López Rivera, recently released from prison after 35 years, much of which was spent in solitary confinement was cheered as the âMandela of Puerto Ricoâ before a packed house at Hostos College, and weâll bring you highlights of the tribute. Rivera,...
Topics: Oscar Lopez Rivera, Martin Espada, Puerto Rico Independence, Puerto Rico debt Oscar Lopez Rivera,...
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., Sept 26, 7 â 8 pm EST ***************************** The Real Deal: we the people, wonât allow our voices to be drowned out by âReality TVâ staged debates that exclude our true concerns - weâll be there to tell it like it is! featuring We the People Amidst the mass mediaâs hoopla promoting of and selling the Clinton/Trump debate, as though it were a heavy weight boxing championship weâll bring you the real...
Topics: rikers island, fight for 15 clinton-trump debate hofstra, close rikers
Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report National Edition - 26' Produced by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ****************** As We Demand Justice For Trayvon Martin His Death Reveals A Long-Frayed Racial Nerve With Linn Washington, Professor of Journalism at Temple University and Colin Goddard, shot 4 times at the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre and Assistant Director of Federal Legislation for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence The murder of 17 year old Trayvon Martin, an...
Topics: Linn Washington, Colin Goddard, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, George Zimmerman, Stand...
Building Bridges Radio: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition - 27:59 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ******************************************** "The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times and Legacy of Joe Hill - American Labor Icon" with author William Adler Labor Day, marked the day for the release of The Man Who Never Died. This book presents new evidence of Joe Hill's innocence of the murder for which Utah executed him in 1915. It also names the likely...
Topics: Bill Adler, William Adler, The Man Who Never Died, Joe Hill, I.W.W., Industrial Workers of the...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Institutional Racism in the U.S. labor market - What is to be done? with William Spriggs, Chief Economist to the AFL-CIO and professor in, and former chair of the Department of Economics at Howard University. Bill is also former assistant secretary for the Office of Policy at the United States Department of Labor The so-called recovery of the US economy has not...
Topics: Bill Spriggs AFL-CO, African American unemployment, African American poverty, Home attendants New...
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., March 13, 7 â 8 pm EST ***************************** "A Day Without a Woman" For years, International Womenâs Day has gone largely unnoticed or was depoliticized. Most people no longer know that its roots lie in the struggle of women garment workers in the United States â or that a mobilization of women in Russia to oppose World War I in 1917 was the spark for an uprising that led to the overthrow of...
Topics: Day without a woman, womenâs strike, womenâs strike, Working Womenâs Day NYC.,...
Building Bridges, the National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ******************** A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Woman Who Dared to Speak Out with Malalai Joya Malalai Joya, is an extraordinary young woman who helped establish a free medical clinic and orphanage in her impoverished home province of Farah; and a constitutional assembly in Kabul, Afghanistan. She became the youngest person elected to Afghanistanâs new Parliament, but in 2007 was...
Topics: Malalai Joya, A Woman Among Warlords, Afghanistan War, Afghanistan women
WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Monday, March 29, 2010, 7-8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM ******************** Hundreds of Thousands Continue The March For Immigrant Rights with Amy Sugimori, Executive Director La Fuente and Laura Vasquez, Legislative Analyst, Immigration Policy Project, La Raza There are more than 11 million immigrants in the country, and efforts to fix the current immigration system have failed...
Topics: wage theft, Mystic Boutique, Retail Action Project, RWDSU, Triangle Fire, Sophis Henderson Holmes
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Ainât I A Woman: how twenty-years after Bill Clinton pulled the safety net from under predominantly poor women and children theyâre left to sink to deeper destitution with Felicia Kornbluh is associate professor of history and gender, sexuality and womenâs studies at the University of Vermont and president of the faculty union, United Academics. Sheâs author...
Topics: President Clinton Welfare, Welfare Reform, Welfare and poverty, Felicia Kornbluh and welfare,...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition - 28:23 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** From Egypt to Wisconsin, Is NY Next?: Breaking the Silence, NYCâs Protests Against Budget Cuts Buoyed by the new spirit of rebellion flowing from Egypt to Wisconsin, thousands of students, workers & community members from a wide coalition of organizations rallied at City Hall Park, followed by a march on Wall Street to demand higher taxes on the...
Topics: Barbara Bowen, Professional Staff Congress, CUNY, James Parrott, Fiscal Policy Institute
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Building Trades Activists Break Mold in Protest of Trump with Gretchen Newsom, Political Director, IBEW Local 569, San Diego Building Trades activists from Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 569 knew they had to do something. âWe couldnât let him come and speak to us and just sit there,â said William Stedham, an executive board member of the local. âIf we...
Topics: Trump unions, Trump construction unions, Gretchen Newsom IBEW Trump, Spectrum cable strike, Local 3...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report The National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ****************** Hey Gov. Cuomo Your Budgetâs Wrong, Itâs Tax the Rich and Feed the Poor, Not the Other Way Around! with Frederick Floss, Executive Director, Fiscal Policy Institute and Professor of Economics and Finance at Buffalo State College When it comes to the state budget Cuomo's approach is out of focus and falls far short in making the essential public investments to expand...
Topics: Governor Cuomo budget, New York State Budget, Frederick Floss, Fiscal Policy Institute, New York...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** "A Day Without a Woman" For years, International Womenâs Day has gone largely unnoticed or was depoliticized. Most people no longer know that its roots lie in the struggle of women garment workers in the United States â or that a mobilization of women in Russia to oppose World War I in 1917 was the spark for an uprising that led to the overthrow of...
Topics: Day without a woman, womenâs strike, womenâs strike, Working Womenâs Day NYC.,...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition - 27:32 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Carlos Alberto Torres Free After 30 Years In Prison with Carlos Alberto Torres A discussion with Carlos Alberto Torres, free from behind bars after 30 years. He was convicted of seditious conspiracy - conspiring to use force against the lawful authority of The United States over Puerto Rico. Torres was punished for being...
Topics: Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican Independence, Carlos Alberto Torres, imperialism, U.S. colonies, Lolita...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** New Jerseyâs Powerful Grassroots Peoples Organization for Progress Takes Bernie Sanders to Heart with Larry Hamm, veteran activist, Chairman the Peopleâs Organization for Progress POP has rarely departed from a long-standing policy of not supporting candidates for office and engaged in a rigorous debate and careful consideration before reaching its position on...
Topics: Larry Hamm Bernie Sanders, Peoples Organization for Progress Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matters...
Building Bridges, National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ***************** Palestinians Refuse To Be âCleansedâ From Their Land with . Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement (AIM) . Alice Walker, writer . Zwelinzima Vavi, Gen. Sec., Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) AIM leader Dennis Banks, renowned author Alice Walker, and South African labor leader Vavi came together to an international tribunal to grapple with Israelâs occupation of Palestine, and strategize how...
Topics: Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement, Alice Walker, Zwelinzima Vavi, COSATU, Palestine, Zionism,...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** Teach the Children Well: The Battle for Public Education featuring Diane Ravitch, one of the foremost authorities on education in the U.S., former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, âwhistle-blower extraordinaire,â author of the best-selling The Death and Life of the Great American School System, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and...
Topics: Diane Ravitch, New York State Budget Education, standardized testing Diane Ravitch, Charter schools...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Following $15/Hour Victories in CA, NY, PA, Underpaid Workers Intensify Call for $15, and Union Rights Nationwide with Record 300-City Strike, and Protests! Fast-food, home care, child care, airport, higher education, hospital and other underpaid workers in the Biggest-ever day of global strikes and protests demanded 15 dollars and hour and union rights for...
Topics: 15 and a union, minimum wage, McDonalds minimum wage, McDonalds union, Trump unions, Trump minimum...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition - 27:46 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Jobs: How Racism, Global Economics, and the New Jim Crow Fuel Black America's Crippling Jobs Crisis with Andy Kroll, Assoc. Editor, TomDispatch and reporter at Mother Jones magazine The Labor Department released the latest figures on unemployment and payrolls - the unemployment rate rose to 9.2 percent, and...
Topics: Andy Kroll, TomDispatch, Cornel West, black unemployment, african american unemployment, jobs...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** The Flint Water Crisis from the Ground Up with . Sean Crawford, a Flint resident and auto worker whose great grandfather was Vice Chair of the Flint sit-down strike . Claire McClinton, Member of Flint Democracy Defense League It's like living in "some sort of a dystopian novel," Sean Crawford writes, "to find National Guard troops going door to...
Topics: Flint Water Crisis, Flint emergency manager, Sean Crawford, Claire McClinton, Flint Democracy...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** How Trump and his key advisors stand to profit from the Dakota Access Pipeline with Antonia Juhasz, an American oil and energy analyst, author, journalist and activist. She has authored three books: The Bush Agenda, The Tyranny of Oil, and Black Tide. Juhasz details what Donald Trumpâs win means for the controversial Dakota Access pipeline, which would run...
Topics: Standing Rock Sioux, Dakota Access Pipeline, Dakota Access Trump, Antonia Juhasz Dakota Access
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Indigenous Lumad Leaders from Mindanao, in Their Fight for Food, Land, and Justice Take Aim at US Funding Philipino Militarization with Norma Capuyan Chairperson of Apo Sandawa Lumadnong Panaghiusa sa Cotabato (ASLPC), a provincial organization of indigenous peoples in Cotabato. Chairperson of BAI Mindanao indigenous womenâs network, a provincial organization...
Topics: Indigenous Lumad Mindanao, Philippines indigeneous, repression Philippines indigenous, Josephine...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** Oscar Lopez Rivera on U.S. Colonialism After Hurricane Maria Oscar Lopez Rivera has been called the Nelson Mandela of Puerto Rico. Indeed, like the South African legend, Rivera was imprisoned for his anti-colonial activism and spent decades in prison. But in January 2017, after serving 35 years of his 70-year sentence, President Barack Obama, as...
Topics: Oscar Lopez Rivera Puerto Rico colonialism, Oscar Lopez Rivera Puerto Rico independence, Oscar...
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., August 22, 7 â 8 pm EST ***************************** Ainât I A Woman: how twenty-years after Bill Clinton pulled the safety net from under predominantly poor women and children theyâre left to sink to deeper destitution with Felicia Kornbluh is associate professor of history and gender, sexuality and womenâs studies at the University of Vermont and president of the faculty union, United Academics. Sheâs...
Topics: welfare reform, Felicia Kornbluh, poverty and wefare, women poverty, Workerâs Justice Project,...
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., January 9, 7 â 8 pm ***************************** STOP the Appointment of Jeff Sessions as US Attorney General: Arrests end NAACP sit-in at Sessions' office with . Lizzetta McConnell, President Mobil, Alabama NAACP . Devon Crawford, Co-Chair of the, Al-Chemy-in-Color, graduate student at the University of Chicago Divinity School and 2016 NAACP-Humanity in Action Fellow Members of Congress must reject the...
Topics: Sessions nomination naacp, Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act Rick Sterling, Free...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** Americaâs not Broke. Not even close. Tax the Rich Overall average individual wealth in the United States has risen 23 percent since the year 2000, to $236,213 per American adult. But, wealth has become incredibly more concentrated. We are taxing the dollars that go to our ever-richer rich at levels far below the tax rates that America levied just a few decades...
Topics: Meizhu Lui, Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative, Insight Center for Community Economic...
WBAIâs Radio Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Monday, August 20, 2012, 7- 8 pm EST, over 99.5 FM Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash ******************************** Hunger Strikers Sew Lips Shut In Protest Against General Motors Colmotores With Rafael Angel Jimenez, Association of Sick and Fired Workers of General Motors Colombia (ASOTRECOL) Workers injured in the General Motors Colmotores assembly plant sewed their lips shut on August 1, 2012, as part of a...
Topics: Association of Sick and Fired Workers of General Motors Colombia, Slaughter At S. Africaâs...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition 27:30 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness with Michelle Alexander, civil rights advocate and litigator, author Alexander offers a bold and innovative argument that mass incarceration amounts to a devastating system of racial control. âJarvious Cottonâs great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was...
Topics: new Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander, drug arrests, war on crime, civil rights, African American males
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition 27:06 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** Africa: Its Labor News & Views In Focus produced by Radio Workers World Productions, Cape Town, South Africa Building Bridges in collaboration with South African based radio Workers World Productions brings us the issues for and protests of Africaâs laboring class, amidst the global economic crisis. ********** Billionaires For Wealthcare...
Topics: Africa Labor, South Africa Labor Unions, Senator Bernie Sanders, Billionaires for Wealthcare,...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition - 27:32 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** Economic Recovery Leaves Workers Behind? with . Heidi Shierholz, Economic Policy Institute . Meizhu Lui, Dir., Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative, Insight Center for Community & Economic Development . Avis Jones-DeWeever, Dir., National Council of Negro Womenâs Research, Public Policy & Information Center They say the economy...
Topics: economic crisis, economic recovery, unemployment, poverty, racial wealth gap, Heidi Shierholz,...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** Out In The Union: A Labor History Of Queer America with Mariam Frank, author Against the backdrop of the historic ruling of the Supreme Court that gay marriage is legal in all the states of this union and in furtherance of addressing the numerous other inequities faced by LGBTQ and gender nonconforming people Miriam Frank, Prof. of Humanities at New York...
Topics: Miriam Frank, LGBTQ and unions, Labor History of Queer America, Ban the Box NYC. Criminal Records...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition -27:13 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** Band Aid Approach To Hemorrhaging Health Care System Continues To Prevail with U.S. Congressman John Conyers The economic crisis has increased the urgency for real health care reform now, yet the President and Congress persist in advocating half measures, ignoring the real problem, the health insurance industry. But, the voices for...
Topics: health care for all, health care reform, John Conyers, David Himmelstein, Medicare for All, Health...
Building Bridges, the National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ****************** Live, In Conversation with Peoplesâ Lawyer and Former U.S. Political Prisoner Lynne Stewart, and Commentaries from Political Prisoners Representatives, her Attorney and Family on Her Release Lynne Stewart, just freed from prison following a worldwide campaign to release her and even as she battles cancer is preparing for the next phase of her life â âI see myself fighting to bring home all of the...
Topics: Lynne Stewart, U.S. political prisoners
WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Monday, March 2, 2009, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM 58 minutes **************************************** Economic Aid To Feed Extreme Poverty with Jeffrey Sachs, economist is Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary- General Ban Ki-Moon, is founder and co-President of the Millennium Promise Alliance, an organization...
Topics: poverty, developing countries, Jeffrey Sachs, Bloomberg unions, union busting
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition 27:57 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** While Capital Says Get Back, The Workers of Guadeloupe-Haiti Said Fight Back! with . Elie Domota, General Secretary, General Union of Workers of Guadeloupe (UGTG) & leader of the general strike there last winter. . Fignolé Saint Cyr, General Secretary,Autonomous Confederation of Haitian Workers (CATH). When the U.S. economy catches a cold...
Topics: Guadeloupe, Haiti, Elie Domota, Fignolé Saint Cyr, unions, health care crisis, Bernie Sanders,...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition 27:17 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ******************************************** Corporations Say, Why Bargain With Free Labor When Thereâs A Captive Labor At Our Disposal? with Rania Khalek, independent journalist, AlterNet Prison labor is every Corporation's dream - cheap labor, no sick leave, no time off, no holidays and employees that can be easily replaced. Of course, for human rights activists however, it's a...
Topics: Rania Khalek, Margaret Flowers, Medicare, Medicare for All, single payer
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition - 28 minutes Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** Rally at NY City Hall Fights for Paid Sick Leave Now Whether itâs the swine flu or another illness, workers shouldnât have to go without their pay, risk retaliation or even losing their jobs when they are sick or need to take care of a sick child. But thatâs the situation for 1.8 million NYC workers and itâs not just unfair for them,...
Topics: Paid Sick Leave, A Better Balance, NYS Paid Family Leave Coalition, Gloria Steinem, Univeristy...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 28 minutes ************************* Farm Labor Organizing Committee -Building on Victories With Baldemar Velasquez, President,Farm Labor Organizing Committee Building on the recent victory organizing over 7,000 guest workers in a agreement with the North Carolina Growers Association, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee is continuing its campaign to organize 20,000 RJ Reynolds tobacco...
Topics: farmworkers, immigration
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition -27:49 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** Nationâs Largest RN Organization Says Healthcare Bill Cedes Too Much to Insurance Industry With Jean Ross, Co-President, National Nurses United National Nurses United, the nationâs largest union of registered nurses, criticized the healthcare bill passed by the U.S. Senate saying âit is tragic to see the promise from Washington this year for...
Topics: health care reform, single payer, National Nurses United, Unite--HERE, John Wilhelm, Richard...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************* Special for Womenâs History Month "Your Home, My Workâ - Domestic Workers Uniting NOTE: 56:27 AND 28 MINUTE VERSIONS AVAILABLE BELOW Building Bridges allows domestic workers to tell their stories - stories of their pains, their pride and their efforts to organize for labor rights. Since slavery, the domestic work force has been predominately women of color....
Topics: women, domestic workers, labor, organizing
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition - 27:06 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times with author Susan Quinn A vivid portrait of the turbulent 1930s and the Roosevelt administration as seen through the WPAâs Federal Theater Project which managed to turn a WPA unemployment program into a platform for some of the most cutting-edge...
Topics: Great Depression, unemployment, WPA, Works Progress Administration, Susan Quinn, Furious...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg (28:30) ******************************************** West Coast Dockers Shut Down Ports As Workers Say No To War with Clarence Thomas, Ex. Board member, Local 10 ILWU Danny Glover, Actor & Human Rights Activist Cynthia McKinney, Former Congresswoman and Presidential Candidate Cindy Sheehan, Anti-War Activist, Candidate for Congress Tens of thousands of docks, members of the...
Topics: Colombia trade unions, coca cola, ILWU, strikes, longshore workers, Mayday
